06/18/2026
🚨Bangladesh has a major problem in their T20I side, and almost no one is noticing!
- In recent times, T20I cricket has slowly built its identity and found the ground beneath its feet. However, not all problems have disappeared.
The Problem: The lower-middle order. More specifically, the number 7 & 8, Rishad and Mahedi both cannot bat. Both have zero technical ability as batters; they almost always do the same thing, which is swinging the bat to smack the air instead of the ball.
When a T20 team has only six players who can bat and five with completely zero batting expertise, that team is bound to fail if the top order collapses.
To balance things out, Bangladesh would have to sacrifice a bowling option and bring in a batter.
However, this will create more problems, as Bangladesh would then have to play with only four legitimate bowling options.
This issue exists because the team has way too many "mini-all-rounders", like Shak Mahedi, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, and Mohammad Saifuddin who can bowl but can barely bat.
On the flip side, players like Saif Hassan, Shamim Hossain, or Soumya Sarkar are only used for their batting, without the team utilizing their bowling skills at all.
The Bangladesh management needs to find a solution. Otherwise, the T20 side will crumble far too many times.
